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The Stack Overflow Podcast/May 9, 2023/25m

Read the docs? We prefer to chat with them

Cloudflare offers zero-trust security and performance tools for web and SaaS apps. Cloudflare Workers allows devs to deploy serverless code globally to over 285 data centers around the world. Astro is an open-source web framework built for speed. Houston is a bot that lets you chat with their docs. Check out Confbrew, a conference session Q&A bot from Markprompt and Contenda (where Cassidy is CTO). Connect with Brendan on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Connect with Fred on LinkedIn. While you’re at it, follow Ceora and Cassidy on Twitter. Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner The Nail for saving if->return vs. if->else efficiency from oblivion. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brendan Irvine-Broque

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Co-creator & CEO

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats/Feb 24, 2023/59m

Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How do islands work? Images, edge, AI, error overlays, hybrid rendering, and more! Show Notes 00:40 Welcome 01:08 Guest introduction FredKSchott.com @Fredkschott on Twitter Fred on GitHub 02:17 What is Astro and why should someone use it? 04:57 What can you build with Astro? 06:11 What’s an island in content? 09:43 How do routes work with Astro? 12:30 How is Markdown handled in Astro? mdxjs 14:32 How does Astro work on the edge? 18:15 How does Astro v2 handle data fetching? 23:25 Integrations with Astro 26:38 Astro AI bot? AI Langchain 30:40 Error overlay design 36:10 What are some of the most important upgrades in v2? 37:18 Hybrid rendering 40:27 Astro’s image component Squoosh 44:39 What happened to snowpack? Pikapkg? 46:48 What is the financial model for Astro? 50:28 Supper Club questions Obsidian ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Chat Langchain Shameless Plugs Astro Astro Discord Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Fred Schott

Co-creator & CEO

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development/Jan 24, 2023/52m

What's new in Astro 2

Fred K. Schott joins the party again to discuss all the new and fun changes in Astro 2. Nick and KBall dig in on what’s new, what’s exciting, and what to expect from the framework built around content. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Astro Introducing Astro 2 JS Party - Build faster websites with Astro 1.0 Astro Islands React Server Components React use hook Content collections Upgrade to Astro v2 Astro server-side rendering Astro migration guide Language Server Protocol Astro language tools Zod SolidJS Jotai TanStack Query State of JS 2022 JS Party on the State of JS Survey Fred’s thread on the State of JS survey Vite Partytown Astro on OpenCollective Astro on StackBlitz Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development/Aug 12, 2022/1h 0m

Build faster websites with Astro 1.0

Astro 1.0 just dropped so Amal got its creator, Fred K. Schott, on the pod for the full rundown. They go deep on how Astro is built to pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with their next-gen island architecture. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code PARTYTIME and get the team plan free for three months. Fly.io – Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Hasura – Create dynamic high-performance GraphQL & REST APIs from your database(s) in minutes with granular authorization and caching baked in. All without touching your underlying database. Go from data to API in minutes. Get started for free at hasura.io/jsparty Featuring: Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X Amal Hussein – GitHub, X Show Notes: Astro 1.0 announcement post Astro’s website Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development/Jul 31, 2020/1h 10m

Migrating to ES Modules

Mikeal and Chris welcome (back) special guest Fred K. Schott, who you may recall from our episode on Pika. This time, we’re talking ESM: what it is, what’s new about it, why it’s the future, writing libraries with it, and much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Scout APM – Are having trouble uncovering performance issues in your NodeJS apps? If so, check out our friends at Scout APM. Scout is application monitoring that automatically reports key NodeJS monitoring metrics, instruments many NodeJS libraries automatically, detects easy-to miss N+1 queries that sneak into production, plus a ton more. Learn more and get started for free at scoutapm.com/changelog. Featuring: Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Show Notes: pika js party limbo brrp estest snowpack skypack Changelog++ 🤫 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats/Jan 8, 2020/57m

Pika Pkg

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Fred Schott about Pika Pkg, a new kind of package registry for the modern web. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 3:24 - What is Pika? 9:40 - What about peer dependencies? 12:53 - What does migration look like? 17:30 - Are these tools making things easier? 21:25 - What is the Pika Registry? 34:48 - What is the Pika editor? 41:13 - Is it open source? 47:30 - What about security? Links Fred Schott @FredKSchott Pika @pikapkg Snowpack Pika Builders Babel Typescript Webpack CSZ Parcel Deno VSCode Entropic Homebrew Plex Synology NAS Luke Jackson Toolsday Podcast ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Fred: Idle Supermarket Scott: Theragun Wes: Emby Shameless Plugs Fred: Pika Scott: Level Up Tutorials Pro - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Fred Schott

Co-creator & CEO

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development/Mar 29, 2019/60m

Bundle because you want to, not because you need to

Jerod and Nick are joined by Fred K. Schott – the main brain behind Pika. What’s that, you ask? An effort to make modern JavaScript more accessible by making it easier to find, publish, install, and use modern packages on npm. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Show Notes: pikapkg.com is your one-stop shop for all things Pika Can I use ES Modules? Fred’s click-baity (but high quality) intro – A Future Without Webpack The now-famous five.js package on npm Also check out @pika/pack There’s an rfc to integrate @pika/pack into npm five.guys(); // '🍔' Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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